Selim Temurci and İsa Mesih Şahin resigned from the Future Party
Future Party Istanbul Deputies Selim Temurci and İsa Mesih Şahin resigned from their parties .
Future Party founders and Istanbul MPs Selim Temurci and İsa Mesih Şahin resigned from the party.
Rumors that Temurci and Şahin, who entered Parliament from the CHP list, would resign had surfaced in the public domain during the day.
The two MPs will not switch to any party for now.
Temurci and Şahin released a long statement on their social media accounts, tagging each other.
In the statement, it was said that the Future Party had moved away from its founding claim, that a significant part of the organizations had broken away during the process, and that the struggle had not yielded any results.
Temurci and Şahin emphasized in their statement that they had not given up the fight.
The explanatory text is as follows:
The current situation has made it impossible for the Future Party, which we founded with great hopes, to build a new vision of the future for Türkiye.
The Future Party was founded with great ambition and, during its founding, assembled a highly skilled team, both at headquarters and across its organizations. Our organizations throughout Türkiye have demonstrated extraordinary efforts.
While our party had the potential to be championed by citizens during its founding, it has now become "a political structure trying to find a place for itself according to the cyclical fluctuations in politics." So much so that even the party's name has been abandoned in favor of participating in non-organic political formations.
A political structure that forgets its purpose, goals, and founding principles has no future. Therefore, factors such as "identity crises experienced during the process, a political style disconnected from the realities of the street, alliances that contradict the nature of politics, a self-centered political approach, and a psychology of reckoning with the past" have distanced the Future Party from its founding claim.
Politics is conducted with the people and a committed cadre. It's impossible for a political party disconnected from the realities of the street to grow. The "Let it be small, let it be mine" mentality won't produce the kind of politics Türkiye needs.
Following the general and local election defeats, all internal party discussions and verbal and written proposals regarding the negative state of our party have been ineffective. Consultative mechanisms on these issues have not been implemented, and the Chairman has not offered a genuine solution. This situation has led to the departure of a significant portion of our founders and organizations who have dedicated themselves to our party.
Tragically, those who set out to promote "competence, merit, and consultation" now demand only "loyalty." Those who claim that governing the country is being personalized have unfortunately surrendered to the "self" mentality. Those who declared they would leave their neighborhoods have found themselves at odds with their own neighborhoods.
It's clear that our party has strayed from its founding values and created a significant gap between itself and our citizens' expectations. Yet, political parties conduct politics based on the public's agenda. While our citizens have significant expectations from politics, our party's failure to focus on these expectations and its immersion in theoretical politics is nothing short of a complete failure to truly engage with real politics.
Unfortunately, due to a series of identity crises, our party has been unable to establish a realistic political foundation, nor has a solution been found. Consequently, neither the struggles we waged in Parliament nor the superior efforts of our organizations have yielded any political results.
At this point, we are resigning from the Future Party, which we founded, in order not to be further contrary to our political stance and conscientious responsibility.
We would like to thank Future Party Chairman Mr. Ahmet Davutoğlu, our members of parliament, our headquarters managers, our Provincial Chairmen, our District Chairmen, and all our organization members, and wish them success.
We have not abandoned our belief that our people deserve a better future, and therefore, our fight for our country. Our political struggle, together with our comrades, will continue on realistic grounds until the very end.
The current situation is as follows: AKP has 272 MPs, CHP has 135 MPs, DEM Party has 56 MPs, İYİ Party has 29 MPs, Yeni Yol Party has 22 MPs, Independent Party has 11 MPs, Future Party has 2 MPs, and Felicity Party has 1 MP.
Yeni Yol was founded as a result of the merger of Saadet-Gelecek and DEVA. After the group's formation, Temurci and Şahin remained under the Future Party umbrella.
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